There still come days in the spring when the country seems to get a stranglehold on me and start in pulling.
No man has a right to get a strangleholdon a woman.
Without meaning to, he got a stranglehold on that girl.
You wouldn't use it," Greg went on, "because it would remove the stranglehold you have on the planets.
We'll smash their stranglehold on the Solar System.
Thus Belloc's own experience, and a thousand other things, went to prove the stranglehold the rulers of the party had on the party.
Of the stranglehold there was no doubt and Gilbert soon found it too much for his own allegiance to the Liberal Party or any other.
If they were right, if it was a Lhari trick to reinforce their stranglehold on the human worlds and keep the warp-drive for themselves, then Bart had nothing to fear.
Then, indeed, the Lhari had been lying all along, the vicious lie that maintained their strangleholdmonopoly of star-travel.